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Today in History: Suicide Car Bombs Kill 55 at Damascus Intelligence

5/10/2026

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On 10 May 2012, two suicide car bombs exploded outside Damascus’s military intelligence headquarters, destroying the façade of a ten-story building. The blasts, using over a tonne of explosives, killed 55 people and injured nearly 400, marking the deadliest attack of the Syrian civil war at that time.

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On 10 May 2012, two suicide car bombs exploded outside Damascus’s military intelligence headquarters, destroying the façade of a ten-story building. The blasts, using over a tonne of explosives, killed 55 people and injured nearly 400, marking the deadliest attack of the Syrian civil war at that time.